Woven fabric



J. A. FLIGG WOVEN FABRIC Feb. 13, 1951 Filed Oct. 26, 1948 Patented Feb.13, 1 951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WOVEN FABRIC James A. Fligg,Elkins Park, Pa.

Application October 26, 1948, Serial No. 56,479

6 Claims.

This invention relates to textile fabrics, and a principal object of theinvention is to provide a novel woven fabric of a type suitable forupholstery, floor covering and other purposes and susceptible, withoutdeparture from the principle of the invention, of manufacture atrelatively low cost in a wide variety of ornamental designs both withand without a pile face.

The invention may be more readily understood by reference to theattached drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a face view of a swatch of fabric of pileless type made inaccordance with the invention;

Fig, 2 is a view showing the reverse or back side of the fabric shown inFig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged diagrammatic top plan View of the fabric, and

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic warpwise sectional View of the fabric asillustrated in Fig. 3.

A fabric made in accordance with the invention will comprise a basefabric composed essentially of a series of ground yarns in the form ofparallel wefts bound together in conventional manner by binder warpswhich are present in two complementary or opposite series. The fabricfurther includes a series of warpwise threads which are bound into thebase fabric by douping under the warps at points intermediate adjoiningground wefts and which originally appear as loops at the face of saidfabric, the said upward loops of the warpwise series belonging to eachof said threads being disposed alternately at opposite sides of a planedefined by the warps under which the thread is douped.

These doup threads extend continuously through the fabric generally inthe warpwise direction and constitute binders for ornamental surfaceyarns laid weftwise upon the base fabric, said surface yarns being tieddown to the base fabric by the said upward loops of the doup threads.

With reference to Figs. 1 to i of the drawings the parallel series ofground wefts are indicated by the reference numeral l. The weft-unitingwarps may be considered in this instance to be arranged in pairs whichare designated generally by the reference numeral 2, each of said pairsincluding a warp, 3 and t respectively, of each of the two complementaryseries aforesaid.

As previously stated, the fabric comprises in addition a series ofparallel upper face or pattern wefts 5, which are superimposed upon thebase web in positions overlying the respective ground wefts I, and thesepattern wefts are bound to the base web by warpwise doup strands 6. Inthe present instance one such strand is associated with each of thepairs 2 of warps 3 and i, the strand 6 being douped back and forth underthe warps 3 and 4 of the associated pair at the points where these warpspass each other intermediate the adjoining ground wefts I, and beinglooped over the face wefts 5 as clearly illustrated, to thereby bindthese wefts to the base web. The downward loops 7 of the strand 5 whichpasses under and embrace the associated warps 3 and Li extendtransversely of the warps generally in the weftwise direction, and theupward loops 8 of the strand which extend over and straddle the patternwefts 5 are thereby disposed alternately at opposite sides of the normalplane defined by the associated pair 2 of the warps. The effect of thisformation at the face of the fabric is well illustrated in Fig. 1wherein the weftwise staggered relation of the weft-straddling loops 8is apparent. In the fabric illustrated the warp-embracing loops '1 ofthe doup yarn will appear at the back of the fabric as illustrated inFig. 2.

I claim:

1. In a textile fabric, a base web including parallel wefts andweft-uniting warps, interwoven strands each exhibiting a generallywarpwise series of upward weft-straddling loops interspersed withdownward warp embracing loops, and decorative weft threads bound down tothe base web by said upward loops and forming the wearing face of thefabric.

2. A textile fabric according to claim 1 wherein each of the downwardloops of each of said strands embraces a common Warp.

3. A textile fabric according to claim 2 wherein successive upward loopsof each of said strands lie at opposite sides respectively of saidcommon warp.

i. In a textile fabric, a base web including parallel wefts andweft-uniting warps in complementary pairs, interwoven strands eachexhibiting a generally warpwise series of upward weft-straddling loopsinterspersed with downward loops embracing said warp pairs, anddecorative weft threads bound down to the base web by said upward loopsand forming the wearing face of the fabric.

5. A textile fabric according to claim 4 wherein each of the downwardloops of each of said strands embraces a common complementary pair ofthe warps.

6. A textile fabric according to claim 5 wherein successive upward loopsof each of said strands lie at opposite sides respectively of saidcommon pair of warps.

JAMES A. FLIGG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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